Travel Grants

Call for Submissions: SANA Travel Grants to Attend the SANA 2025 Spring Meeting

SANA’s travel grants are available for members presenting at the SANA Spring Meeting, to be held in Portland, Oregon, March 26-29, 2025, in collaboration with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). See below for details of each.

St. Clair Drake Travel Grant

SANA’s St. Clair Drake Travel Grant will support student travel to the 2025 Spring Meeting with grants of $500. All currently enrolled graduate students who are SANA members and presenting at the meeting are eligible. To apply, submit your paper abstract and session information, university and program affiliation, and contact information in the body of an email to SANATravelGrants@gmail.com by January 15, 2025.

Additional Guidelines

  • The grant is awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of SANA board members and past recipients.
  • Preference will go to students whose meeting participation considers the politics of everyday life in North America such as those pertaining to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexuality. 
  • This travel grant is intended for currently enrolled graduate students without a PhD.
  • Applicants must be SANA members (join here for only $10) and on the program for the meeting.
  • Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual two years in a row.
  • SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and encourages everyone eligible to apply for this grant regardless of society’s labels or anthropology’s disciplinary boundaries.

Who was St. Clair Drake?

Margot D. Weiss has written a biography on the pioneering social anthropologist and activist. Read it here. 

Past St. Clair Drake Travel Grant Recipients

 

Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant

Building on SANA’s history of support for those whose work and/or identities places them outside the disciplinary mainstream, the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant provides $500 for conference travel for the rapidly increasing number of scholars who labor in positions outside the tenure-track system. If you are a SANA member presenting at the 2025 Spring Meeting and are an independent scholar, faculty at a community college, and/or working in a contingent capacity for a college or university, including part-time instructors, adjunct instructors, and full-time, non-tenure-track instructors, you are eligible. To apply, submit your paper abstract and session information, institutional affiliation and employment details, and contact information in the body of an email to SANATravelGrants@gmail.com by January 15, 2025. 

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